Bert van der Helm

Bert van der Helm (born 1948 in Zoeterwoude) is a former Dutch table tennis player and coach.

Career
Player
Van der Helm competed 189 times for the Dutch national team, competing at five European Championships and five World Championships. 

Van der Helm became 25 times national champion.Nederlandse kampioenen NTTB, 2012
 12 times individual champion (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979 1980)
 8 times men’s doubles with Gerard Bakker Sr (1966 and 1970), with Nico van Slobbe (1972, 1974 en 1978), with Anton-Will van Zoelen (1977), with Han Gootzen (1980) and with René Hijne (1982).
 6 times mixed doubles including with his wife Ellen Kort (1966, 1967 and 1969), with Aukje Wynia (1970), with Mieke Arntz (1977) and with Ine Willems (1980)

Coach
Van der Helm became table tennis coach. During the 1980s he was head coach of the men’s national team and have been criticized by players. In 1994 he refused to become head coach of the Dutch national team.

Other websites
Newspaper articles of Van der Helm - via Delpher

References

Category:1948 births
Category:living people
Category:Sportspeople from South Holland
Category:Table tennis coaches
Category:Spanish table tennis players